“The children’s piece of this economic puzzle didn’t sink in for me until I went to the show last week and listened to all the families around me, ooing and ahhing as they watched their kids prance around the stage in snowflake and soldier costumes. There are 440 children who are members of the cast. About 30 to 50 kids are in the show each night. So let’s figure it out. Each child’s family, in addition to the proud parents, might have grannies, grandpas, aunts, uncles, friends, brothers and sisters. And they all go to the Nutcracker, some several times.”